A LORRY driver's life was put at grave risk when schoolboys dropped bricks and stones into the path of traffic passing under an M6 motorway bridge.

A LORRY driver's life was put at grave risk when schoolboys dropped bricks and stones into the path of traffic passing under an M6 motorway bridge.

And at Warwick Crown Court one of the boys, a 15-year-old from Smithswood, Solihull, pleaded guilty to causing damage to a David Maxim Haulage Ltd HGV being reckless whether the life of driver Robert Patton would be endangered.

Lawrence Watts, defending, told the court the boy, who Judge Charles Harris QC said should not be named, had entered his plea on the basis that he was reckless whether damage was caused.

Mr Watts said: "He was part of a group of youngsters on a motorway bridge in May.

"More than one of them was throwing things off the bridge, and it is not clear whether what he threw was what caused the damage."

Mr Watts said that a presentence report recommended a referral order as an alternative to custody, but that could not be passed at crown court.